How are mountains formed?

• A few mountains stand alone

1-Fujiyama-Japan
2-Mount Taranaki-New Zealand
3-Mount Kenya –Africa
• Most of them are found in long chains called mountain ranges
1-The Alps-Europe
2-Himalaya -Asia
3-Rocky –North America
How are mountains formed?
1-Volcanic mountain.
2-Fold mountains.
3-Block mountains.
Volcanic mountains
• Volcanic mountains form when molten rock from deep inside the Earth
erupts through the crust and piles up on itself.
Fold mountains
• When two plates push each other the earth crust is slowly pushed in
fold which form fold mountains.
• India used to be long way from Asia , but slowly the plate with India
on it moved closer to the plate Asia on it .The rocks in the sea
between India and Asia Re pushed up to form the Himalaya mountain.
Fault and block mountains
• While some plates are pushing together, others are moving apart . As
for example Europe and north America are slowly moving apart each
year .
• As the rocks move apart the often create cracks and breaks called
faults .
• Sometimes large blocks of rockare pushed up between two
faults ,these blocks are may be so large and high that they form a
mountain.
• Block mountain usually have flat tops.Flat-topped mountains are
called plateau.